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MISSING RILEY STRAIN: AFTER SHOW · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Where is Riley joining us?
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  Speaker 2: Chris Dingman a very dear family friend of the Strains.
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  Speaker 3: I want to share something with this group and we
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  Speaker 3: can talk if you guys have questions. I know we're
• 0:20
  Speaker 3: playing chess right now. Nancy understands that too, more than anybody. Marathon.
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  Speaker 3: I reached out to Marathon the Tuesday after Riley went
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  Speaker 3: missing to put in context of how much this ball
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  Speaker 3: has been dropped at that area, the fact that you
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  Speaker 3: reached out also and said, hey, we've never even heard
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  Speaker 3: of anything. I want to share something with you guys.
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  Speaker 3: And Nancy, I love your passion and your mama bear.
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  Speaker 3: But I've been in contact with Riley's and I'm calling
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  Speaker 3: her his lady friend. She shared some stuff with me
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  Speaker 3: last night which I'm sharing with the family. She and
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  Speaker 3: Riley had a private conversation and Riley told her. He goes,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're my favorite person, and she goes really,
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: and he goes, no, no, wait a minute, you're my
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  Speaker 3: second favorite person. And she goes, well, okay, well who's
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  Speaker 3: your favorite and he goes, my mom, So.
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  Speaker 1: That's the kid we're looking for. What time was that?
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  Speaker 1: What time was that?
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  Speaker 3: What we know and we have put together the last
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  Speaker 3: thing that the phone did. We think that is the
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  Speaker 3: last conversation, and she is the last person to have
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  Speaker 3: any correspondence with him. She had asked him if he
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  Speaker 3: was having a good time, and he had responded with
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  Speaker 3: good lops lops, which was really confusing for her. She's young,
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  Speaker 3: and she's like, wow, new slang. I don't so you
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  Speaker 3: said her and her mom actually googled it.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably writing lots lots well.
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  Speaker 3: But the funny part with Riley if you ever communicated
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  Speaker 3: with his phone, the kid was extremely punctual, even if
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  Speaker 3: he had had a few beers in exclamation points emojis.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he was very punctual kid, a very intelligent kid.
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  Speaker 3: So that correspondence really was odd that you know that
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  Speaker 3: was said.
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  Speaker 2: Could you tell me one more time what it said?
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  Speaker 2: I want to make sure I understand.
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  Speaker 3: What it said, good l ops lots.
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  Speaker 1: Did he ever dictate into his phone?
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  Speaker 2: No, so he would have typed that, and he was
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  Speaker 2: on foot at night walking. I would think that meant
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  Speaker 2: good lots lots of fun. I'm very intrigued by what
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  Speaker 2: he was saying when he talked to her. He seemed
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  Speaker 2: to have his wits about him. Chris, what do you
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  Speaker 2: think about this homeless encampment? And you know, I heard
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  Speaker 2: doctor Bethanie talking about how peace loving and sharing the
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  Speaker 2: homeless community is. I'm not necessarily agreeing with that, but
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  Speaker 2: what do the parents think about that we have?
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  Speaker 3: We actually have two volunteers that have literally been sleeping
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  Speaker 3: in the homeless camps that were not homeless, to give
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  Speaker 3: you an ideal of what we are going to and
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  Speaker 3: the outpouring of people in it. As a dad, it
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  Speaker 3: scares the crap out of me that they're there. We've
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  Speaker 3: got their phone's paying, they're doing recordings. Yes, I think
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  Speaker 3: there's extremely viable information there. This is information for everybody
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  Speaker 3: in this group at the moment. The crazy thing is
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  Speaker 3: is when the TikTok crew hit there, they were already
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  Speaker 3: coming to Nashville to protest what the House had done
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  Speaker 3: trying to ban TikTok. We had no ideal that there
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  Speaker 3: was that huge of a group of TikTokers. They had
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  Speaker 3: picked Nashville to come to Nashville to protest, signs and everything.
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  Speaker 3: I was blessed to get in touch with three or
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  Speaker 3: four of them and wow, here we are. Just you know,
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  Speaker 3: I made the comment, we're bigger than Tiger King during Corona.
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  Speaker 3: We do have people that are physically in the camps.
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  Speaker 3: There are a few people of interest that the police
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  Speaker 3: are aware of and they are looking for, but homeless
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  Speaker 3: people ninety nine percent of them do not want to
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  Speaker 3: be found. They don't want to be bothered.
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  Speaker 1: What did you just say? Police are looking for?
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  Speaker 3: Who people are looking The police are looking for a
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  Speaker 3: few homeless people that we do have questions for. The
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  Speaker 3: young lady from Nashville iterated that, you know, one of
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  Speaker 3: the homeless interviews had yelled back up the hill to
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  Speaker 3: the gentleman, you know, hey, what's going on? And he
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  Speaker 3: goes nothing. It's a drunk guy. We have the name
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  Speaker 3: of that gentleman and we are looking for him.
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  Speaker 1: What happened.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, when everybody went to that specific area and we
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  Speaker 3: have a very limited ground zero for information, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of those homeless that was there that evening dispersed and
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  Speaker 3: went to other homeless camps in Nashville because they didn't
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  Speaker 3: want the press, didn't want to be talked to, didn't
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  Speaker 3: want to be seen. We've been blessed with the homeless
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  Speaker 3: people that we have been in contact with, though they
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  Speaker 3: know where those camps are. They've given us names of
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  Speaker 3: specific people that they knew was in that street or
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  Speaker 3: that area or that exact camp. There's actually a I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure they're a married couple, but they are a
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  Speaker 3: couple that was just down from there about ten feet.
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  Speaker 3: The onlyady from Nashville shall know the couple I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Probably they're the ones that you know yelled back up.
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  Speaker 3: But we have names. But right now we're just trying
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  Speaker 3: to find which camp they went to and what direction
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  Speaker 3: they went to.
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  Speaker 2: I understand that two groups of homeless encampment state that
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  Speaker 2: they saw Riley.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, somebody had mentioned about across the river at the
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  Speaker 3: Titan Stadium. That is actual Tent City. To give you
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  Speaker 3: a demographic, what is where we were at and where
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  Speaker 3: Riley was last seen at is And I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to be disrespectful, it's more of the Beverly Hills of
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  Speaker 3: the homeless community in that area. It is the more
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  Speaker 3: organized groups, the organized people, the less offensive, et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: That's not saying that there's not people their dad over
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  Speaker 3: in Tent City. And this is literally from our people
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  Speaker 3: that are staying in the camp at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Chris, let me understand something.
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  Speaker 2: You're saying that the homeless people on the other side
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  Speaker 2: of the ridge are saying that they saw him.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, but the other people on the other side
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  Speaker 3: of the bridge where the marathon holding facility is, uh,
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  Speaker 3: that is a way more Wild West style homeless camp
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  Speaker 3: that is where.
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  Speaker 4: So just just just to be clear on this. So
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  Speaker 4: these cameras are trained out over the river to protect
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  Speaker 4: against threats coming of people coming from the river into
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  Speaker 4: the facility, and the same with the Titans stadium. So
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  Speaker 4: we were looking at the cameras that actually look under
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  Speaker 4: that bridge and Chris, you know, I know you said
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  Speaker 4: you talked to Berthon. Did you talk to Samantha and Ohio,
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  Speaker 4: the head of security, because she's the one who has
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  Speaker 4: access to all the counter cameras that are on the bar,
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  Speaker 4: that are on.
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  Speaker 1: The dock itself. If not, I may be her cell
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  Speaker 1: phone number.
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  Speaker 3: I think perfect, perfect, do that. What where we're at is,
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  Speaker 3: I'm still based in Springfield, but I've been media for
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  Speaker 3: a long time and what we've done is we've created
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  Speaker 3: Riley's war Room and we're doing exactly this the mornings,
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: only wake up at lunchtime and then we come home
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  Speaker 3: in the evenings and we put together everything that we
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  Speaker 3: found with our contacts. We actually have a burner phone
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: inside the homeless community right now. Guys, we're trying everything
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  Speaker 3: we can, but the marathon deal was extremely frustrating for us.
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  Speaker 2: Did you tell me that, Chris, Did you tell me
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  Speaker 2: that you have two people that have embedded themselves in
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  Speaker 2: the homeless community right now trying to find out information,
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  Speaker 2: staying there overnight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, which is just phenomenal, but it's extremely dangerous not
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  Speaker 3: knowing the people they're with.
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  Speaker 2: If you know or think you know anything about the
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  Speaker 2: disappearance of Raleigh Strain, please call six one five eighty
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  Speaker 2: six y two eighty six hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Goodbye, friend,